– The destruction of one of the largest water reservoirs in Ukraine is absolutely deliberate, says Volodymyr Zelenskyj further in a statement on Telegram. Large amounts of water have gushed out through the Kakhovka dam since it burst on the night of Tuesday. The regional authorities in the occupied part of the Kherson region have also declared a state of emergency as a result of the floods, reports Russian state media. On Wednesday, the governor reports that parts of the Russian minefields in the area have been flooded. The Kakhovka dam before and after the breach on the night of 6 June. A senior manager in the town of Nova Kakhovka, which is under Russian control, says that 100 people are stuck there and need help with evacuation. 17,000 people are said to have been evacuated from the area downstream from the dam. 24 villages will be affected. – More than 40,000 people are at risk of being victimized, says Ukrainian prosecutor Andriy Kostin to the agency AF. He adds that it is still necessary to evacuate several tens of thousands of Ukrainians who are staying on the Russian-occupied side of the river. The information has not been independently confirmed. This is how the river width at Novo Kakhovka has changed as a result of the breach. Ukraine and Russia have very different views on what caused the dam to collapse. Ukrainian authorities claim Russians have blown it up from the inside, while Russia has blamed Ukraine for blowing up the dam with a rocket launcher. Reports of shooting in Kherson The governor of the Kherson region, where the dam is located, reports shooting in several places in the flooded area in the last 24 hours. Among these will be the city of Kherson, says Oleksandr Produkin further in the messaging app Telegram, without adding any further details. The information has not been independently verified. Residents are evacuated from a flooded area. Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Kuleba says the work is still ongoing. Photo: STRINGER / Reuters The Ukrainian military says that the breach will not prevent the Ukrainian offensive, even in the area where resistance has risen. The Kakhovka dam contained just over 18 cubic kilometers of water. That is a third of the quantity found in Mjøsa, and enough to supply the entire Norwegian people 50 years from now. It is 3.2 kilometers long and 30 meters high, and dams the Kakhovka reservoir. The UN called for an emergency meeting The UN’s Security Council held an emergency meeting to discuss the serious situation following the dam collapse in Ukraine on Tuesday night. The meeting started at 22 Norwegian time. The US’s deputy ambassador to the UN, Robert Wood, says that they are not sure who is behind the dam failure. – But it does not make sense that Ukraine should do something like this against its own people, and on its own territory, he said on the way to the meeting. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said that if the failure turned out to be a deliberate act, this would be “a new low point” for Russia, the BBC reported while the meeting was taking place. Russia’s UN ambassador, Vasilij Nebenzia, claims the dam failure is the result of a sabotage action, and calls this action a “war crime”. The UN Security Council discussed the dam collapse in Ukraine on Tuesday. Photo: AP Hevdar agricultural area could become a desert The changes in river level and river flow after the collapse could create major problems for agriculture at the dam, the Ukrainian Ministry of Agriculture believes. In the first place, they expect that Flaumar will cover 10,000 hectares of agricultural land on the Ukrainian-controlled bank of the Dnipro. These will also have major consequences for the irrigation canals that have been used by the farmers in the large area. With the help of the Black Sea Agreement, Ukraine has exported grain to large parts of the world. The drone image shows a farm in the Kherson region in April 2023. Photo: Bernat Armangue / AP – The man-made disaster will disrupt the water supply to 31 irrigation systems in Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya counties. – The destruction of the Kakhovka hydropower plant will lead to the agricultural area in southern Ukraine becoming a desert as early as next year, the statement says. In addition, it is expected that the drinking water in the area, and the fisheries, will be affected. Facts about the Kakhovka Dam * Located across the great river Dnipro in southern Ukraine, east of the city of Kherson. * 30 meters high, 3.2 kilometers long, built in 1956 as part of a hydroelectric plant * Also supplies large parts of southern Ukraine with water, including the Crimean peninsula and Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, the Zaporizhzhya power plant. * The reservoir behind the dam covers an area of 2,150 square kilometers. * Was destroyed on the night of Tuesday. The extent of the damage and the causal relationship are unclear. (Source: Reuters/NTB)
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